linux-kernel - [PATCH v9 2/4] seccomp: switch system call argument type to void *

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Message-Id: <20181203032827.27978-3-tycho@tycho.ws>
Date:   Sun,  2 Dec 2018 20:28:25 -0700
From:   Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>,
        Akihiro Suda <suda.akihiro@....ntt.co.jp>,
        Aleksa Sarai <asarai@...e.de>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>
Subject: [PATCH v9 2/4] seccomp: switch system call argument type to void *

The const qualifier causes problems for any code that wants to write to the
third argument of the seccomp syscall, as we will do in a future patch in
this series.

The third argument to the seccomp syscall is documented as void *, so
rather than just dropping the const, let's switch everything to use void *
as well.

I believe this is safe because of 1. the documentation above, 2. there's no
real type information exported about syscalls anywhere besides the man
pages.

Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>
CC: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
CC: Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
CC: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>
CC: Akihiro Suda <suda.akihiro@....ntt.co.jp>
---
 include/linux/seccomp.h | 2 +-
 kernel/seccomp.c        | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/seccomp.h b/include/linux/seccomp.h
index e5320f6c8654..b5103c019cf4 100644
--- a/include/linux/seccomp.h
+++ b/include/linux/seccomp.h
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ extern void secure_computing_strict(int this_syscall);
 #endif
 
 extern long prctl_get_seccomp(void);
-extern long prctl_set_seccomp(unsigned long, char __user *);
+extern long prctl_set_seccomp(unsigned long, void __user *);
 
 static inline int seccomp_mode(struct seccomp *s)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
index 96afc32e041d..393e029f778a 100644
--- a/kernel/seccomp.c
+++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ static long seccomp_get_action_avail(const char __user *uaction)
 
 /* Common entry point for both prctl and syscall. */
 static long do_seccomp(unsigned int op, unsigned int flags,
-		       const char __user *uargs)
+		       void __user *uargs)
 {
 	switch (op) {
 	case SECCOMP_SET_MODE_STRICT:
@@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ static long do_seccomp(unsigned int op, unsigned int flags,
 }
 
 SYSCALL_DEFINE3(seccomp, unsigned int, op, unsigned int, flags,
-			 const char __user *, uargs)
+			 void __user *, uargs)
 {
 	return do_seccomp(op, flags, uargs);
 }
@@ -956,10 +956,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(seccomp, unsigned int, op, unsigned int, flags,
  *
  * Returns 0 on success or -EINVAL on failure.
  */
-long prctl_set_seccomp(unsigned long seccomp_mode, char __user *filter)
+long prctl_set_seccomp(unsigned long seccomp_mode, void __user *filter)
 {
 	unsigned int op;
-	char __user *uargs;
+	void __user *uargs;
 
 	switch (seccomp_mode) {
 	case SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT:
-- 
2.19.1